The changing face of C# development

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The changing face of C# development
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Author:	Jon Skeet
Published:	September 2007
Copyright:	2007
Publisher:	Manning Publications Co.

In this chapter, we’ll have a sneak peek at a few of the features the rest of the book will cover. We’ll see that while C# 2 fixed a lot of the issues people encountered when using C# 1, the ideas in C# 3 could significantly change the way we write code and even think about the problem in the first place.

Chapter Contents

1.1 EVOLUTION IN ACTION: EXAMPLES OF CODE CHANGE

1.1.1 Defining the Product type
1.1.2 Sorting products by name
1.1.3 Querying collections
1.1.4 Representing an unknown price
1.1.5 LINQ

1.2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF C# (AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES)

1.2.1 The world before C#
1.2.2 C# and .NET are born
1.2.3 Minor updates with .NET 1.1 and the first major step: .NET 2.0
1.2.4 "Next generation" products
1.2.5 Historical perspective and the fight for developer support
1.2.6 Untangling version number chaos

1.3 FULLY FUNCTIONAL CODE IN SNIPPET FORM

1.3.1 Snippets and their expansions
1.3.2 Introducing Snippy

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